headbanging

English

A person headbanging and playing air guitar.

Etymology

From head +‎ banging.

Noun

headbanging (uncountable)

1. A type of dance associated with hard rock or heavy metal music, in which the head is shaken violently in time with music.
2. (psychology, autism) The motion of striking one's head against a surface, a common stereotypy.

See also

• headbanging on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

headbanging

1. present participle and gerund of headbang

Adjective

headbanging (not comparable)

1. Extremely frustrating.
   • 1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 6:

     Any work of art/propaganda is surely permitted to lie. But Stone's overreachings in JFK are head-banging. How did he get this thing past the Script Dept.?